The Magic of Fantasy, Women and Reading
There is something magical about bringing a little fantasy into photography. At Zest Photography, we love creating images that feel like they belong to another world.
Photography gives us the opportunity to take the things we love to imagine and make them tangible. We can create an image that captures the strength of a warrior, the confidence of a queen, the softness of a romantic or the wild spirit of an adventurer, all while celebrating the real woman standing in front of our camera.
For a moment, you're not just taking a photograph. You're creating a story.
From A Court of Thorns and Roses to Fourth Wing and the many Romantasy worlds that have captured our imaginations, these books have given women something more than an escape.
Beneath all the fantasy, romance, courts and magical worlds is something we think is really beautiful. They’ve given us characters who are powerful, complicated, resilient, passionate and unapologetically themselves.
These stories invite women to imagine themselves as powerful. They remind us that there is a warrior inside us, too.
Not powerful in a perfect, untouchable way. Powerful in a I've been through things and I'm still standing kind of way.
At Zest Photography, we understand the joy of getting completely lost in a book. We understand the emotional attachment to fictional characters.
Because reading isn't something that should be tucked away as a quiet little hobby. It's finding pieces of yourself in characters who live in worlds that don't even exist.
One of the things we love about fantasy and romantasy is the way these stories allow women to explore different versions of themselves.
The warrior. The queen. The adventurer. The Romantic.
Characters like these can make us look at ourselves a little differently. They encourage us to embrace strength alongside softness, and femininity alongside power.
And perhaps that is one of the reasons books like ACOTAR, Fourth Wing and other romantasy favourites have resonated so strongly with so many women.
They give us permission to play, to imagine.
To step outside our everyday lives and see ourselves as the heroine of our own story.
Here's to the books that inspire us, the women who read them, and the stories we're still writing for ourselves.
From all of us at Zest Photography Perth — happy reading. 📚✨
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